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Libyan parties agree to hold elections on Dec. 24, 2021

Libya’s warring sides agreed Friday to hold elections on Dec. 24, 2021, on Libya's independence day, according to the head of the UN support mission in the country. The decision came during a UN-sponsored Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) which began Monday in Tunisia between...

Second Libya shipwreck raises toll to around 100 in one day

A shipwreck off the Libyan coast has killed 20 people, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said, just hours after news of a separate incident in which at least 74 migrants died. MSF teams in northwestern coastal city of Sorman "assisted three women as the lone survivors of another shipwreck where...

U.N. opens Libya peace talks in Tunis with eye on elections

The United Nations opened talks on Libya’s future in Tunisia on Monday aimed at ending nearly a decade of chaos and bloodshed by arranging elections, but obstacles remain despite progress in cementing last month’s ceasefire. Acting U.N. Libya envoy Stephanie Williams has described it as...